“There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.”1
“The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.”
“Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: ‘God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled.’ When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.”
“The person who never meditates with delight on the glory of Christ in the Scriptures now will not have any real desire to see that glory in heaven. What sort of faith and love do people have who find time to think about many other things but make no time for meditating on this glorious subject?”
“He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself.”
“There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.”
“There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves;—of God, in his greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.”
“We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.”
“Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.”
“Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.”
“Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.”
“Not to see the wisdom of God, and the power of God, and consequently all the other holy properties of his nature, in Christ, is to be an unbeliever.”
“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer unto whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow, and trouble.”
“There is an infinite distance between God and His creatures, and it is an act of sheer grace for Him to take notice of earthly things. Christ, as God, is completely self-sufficient in His own eternal blessedness. How great, then, is the glory of His self-humiliation in taking our nature that He might bring us to God! Such humiliation was not forced on Him; He freely chose to do it.”
“Slothful and lazy souls never obtain one view of the glory of Christ.”
“That one of the greatest privileges and advancements of believers, both in this world and unto eternity, consists in their beholding the glory of Christ.”
“See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.”
“Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.”
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites:
76 John Owen Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
Inspirational Quotes by John Owen